Macy Rodman
{{Short description|American musician}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2022}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Macy Rodman
| image = Macy Rodman on CompUSA Live.jpg
| caption = Rodman in 2018
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1989}}
| birth_place = Juneau, Alaska, U.S.
| occupation = {{hlist|singer-songwriter|comedian|podcaster|performance artist|former drag queen{{cite web|url=https://bedfordandbowery.com/2013/09/drag-queen-macy-rodman-thinks-bushwick-is-getting-gayer-and-gayer/|title=Drag Queen Macy Rodman Thinks Bushwick Is Getting Gayer and Gayer|last=Martin|first=Erica|work=Bedford + Bowery|date=September 6, 2013|access-date=January 26, 2022|archive-date=January 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126170755/https://bedfordandbowery.com/2013/09/drag-queen-macy-rodman-thinks-bushwick-is-getting-gayer-and-gayer/|url-status=live}}}}
| label = {{hlist|Sweat Equity|Accidental Popstar}}
| genre = {{hlist|Punk rock{{Cite web|last=Murphy|first=Rhodes|date=February 25, 2020|title=Macy Rodman, a punk performance artist for the shitposting generation|url=https://www.documentjournal.com/2020/02/macy-rodman-a-punk-performance-artist-for-the-shitposting-generation/|access-date=January 26, 2022|website=Document Journal|language=en-US|archive-date=January 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126014122/https://www.documentjournal.com/2020/02/macy-rodman-a-punk-performance-artist-for-the-shitposting-generation/|url-status=live}}|experimental pop{{Cite web |last=Hahn |first=Rachel |date=July 12, 2017 |title=Singer-Songwriter Macy Rodman Is a Fashion Star in the Making |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/macy-rodman-the-lake-experimental-pop-club-style |access-date=March 3, 2022 |website=Vogue |language=en-US |archive-date=February 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220210224347/https://www.vogue.com/article/macy-rodman-the-lake-experimental-pop-club-style |url-status=live }}|psychedelic pop{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/they-seem-cool-musician-macy-rodman.html|title=The Psychedelic Pop Singer Who's 'Drawn to Chaotic Good'|first1=Devine|last1=Blacksher|first2=Andrew|last2=Nguyen|date=June 18, 2020|website=The Cut|access-date=August 24, 2021|archive-date=July 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728222832/https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/they-seem-cool-musician-macy-rodman.html|url-status=live}}|bubblegum pop|indie pop}}
| instrument =
| years_active = 2016–present
| associated_acts = Shamir
| alt =
}}
Macy Rodman (born 1989){{cite web |url=https://www.subvrtmag.com/pop-star-music-macy-rodman-trans-icon |title=Meet Macy Rodman, Glittering Starlet of the Internet |accessdate=September 24, 2022 |date=August 20, 2021 |first=Jasmine |last=Ledesma |work=Subvrt Mag}} is an American singer-songwriter, comedian, podcaster, and performance artist.{{Cite web |last=Wetmore |first=Brendan |date=August 2, 2019 |title=Macy Rodman Is a 'Greased Up Freak' |url=https://www.papermag.com/macy-rodman-greased-up-freak-video-2639621382.html?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2?rebelltitem=2 |website=Paper |access-date=August 24, 2021 |archive-date=August 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824183548/https://www.papermag.com/macy-rodman-greased-up-freak-video-2639621382.html?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2?rebelltitem=2 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Tourjee |first=Diana |date=October 25, 2015 |title='Lazy Girl' by Artist Macy Rodman Is an Anthem for Transgender Millennials |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/lazy-girl-by-artist-macy-rodman-is-an-anthem-for-transgender-millennials/ |website=Vice |access-date=August 24, 2021 |archive-date=August 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824184140/https://www.vice.com/en/article/pg79mm/lazy-girl-by-artist-macy-rodman-is-an-anthem-for-transgender-millennials |url-status=live }} Rodman's style combines punk and rock with 90s inspired club-pop beats, eliciting comparisons to Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Sinéad O'Connor, Björk, Sia, Portishead, Madonna, Liz Phair, and Courtney Love. She has released three studio albums, The Lake (2017), Endless Kindness (2019), and Unbelievable Animals (2021).
Early and personal life
Rodman was born in Juneau, Alaska{{Cite web |last=Manzella |first=Sam |date=August 5, 2021 |title=Macy Rodman's Latest Single Is All About Hooking Up With Your Friends |url=http://www.newnownext.com/macy-rodman-rock-n-roll-gay-guy/08/2021/ |access-date=January 26, 2022 |website=LOGO News |archive-date=January 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126012623/http://www.newnownext.com/macy-rodman-rock-n-roll-gay-guy/08/2021/ |url-status=live }} in 1989{{Cite web |last=Silverman |first=Aviva |date=2020-05-29 |title=NYC TOHP Transcript #197: Macy Rodman |url=https://nyctransoralhistory.org/content/uploads/2021/12/Macy-Rodman-Transcript-FINAL_UPDATE.pdf |access-date=2023-05-08 |website=NYC Trans Oral History Project}} and moved to New York City at age 18{{Cite web |last=Bankwalla |first=Afriti |date=2022-07-22 |title=Kylie Minogue Meets Courtney Love: Introducing Macy Rodman |url=https://districtfray.com/articles/kylie-minogue-meets-courtney-love-introducing-macy-rodman/ |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=District Fray Magazine |language=en-US}} in 2008 to go to the Parsons School of Design. She later dropped out. Rodman is a transgender woman and started her transition shortly after moving to the city.{{Cite web |last=Dommu |first=Dream |title=Meet Macy Rodman, Trans Pop's Accidental Courtney Love |url=https://www.nylon.com/articles/macy-rodman-trans-pop-interview |access-date=January 26, 2022 |website=Nylon |date=February 14, 2016 |language=en |archive-date=January 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126012624/https://www.nylon.com/articles/macy-rodman-trans-pop-interview |url-status=live }} She lives in Brooklyn, New York{{Cite web |last=Dresden |first=Hilton |date=August 25, 2021 |title=How Macy Rodman Turned a Pandemic Breakup Into Her Grooviest Album Yet |url=https://www.them.us/story/macy-rodman-new-album-unbelievable-animals-interview |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126012624/https://www.them.us/story/macy-rodman-new-album-unbelievable-animals-interview |archive-date=January 26, 2022 |access-date=January 26, 2022 |website=them. |language=en-US}} and was married in November 2024.{{Cite Instagram |postid=DC4vd-cyMfY |user=macyrodman |title=A week ago @capri____son and I got married!!! |date=2024-12-28}}
Career
Rodman became involved in the Brooklyn drag scene after moving to New York through DJing and performing.{{Cite web |last=Nichols |first=James Michael |date=March 9, 2014 |title=Macy Rodman, Host Of 'BathSalts' At Don Pedro |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/macy-rodman-brooklyn_n_4913302 |access-date=January 26, 2022 |website=HuffPost |language=en |archive-date=January 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126033255/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/macy-rodman-brooklyn_n_4913302 |url-status=live }} She then began to host a weekly alternative drag show called Bathsalts.{{Cite web|last=Caplan|first=Seth|title=Queer Nightlife: A Night with Untitled Queen|url=https://www.intomore.com/you/queer-nightlife-night-untitled-queen/|access-date=January 26, 2022|website=INTO|date=November 4, 2021 |language=en-US|archive-date=January 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126033255/https://www.intomore.com/you/queer-nightlife-night-untitled-queen/|url-status=live}} In 2014, Rodman designed the wigs, make up, and costumes for Femme Fatale Theatre's production of Oscar Wilde's Vera; or, The Nihilists.{{Cite web |last=Purcell |first=Carey |date=2014-02-12 |title=Oscar Wilde's Vera; Or, The Nihilists, Featuring All-Male Cast, Begins at HERE Feb. 12 |url=https://playbill.com/article/oscar-wildes-vera-or-the-nihilists-featuring-all-male-cast-begins-at-here-feb-12-com-214785 |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=Playbill}} Rodman was featured on the cover of My Comrade, an underground magazine covering drag in June 2022.{{Cite web |last=Boyle |first=Meka |date=2022-06-29 |title=Inside 'My Comrade,' a time capsule of NYC's legendary drag scene |url=https://www.documentjournal.com/2022/06/my-comrade-linda-simpson-lady-bunny-macy-rodman-drag-gay-culture-new-york-pride/ |access-date=2022-10-24 |website=Document Journal |language=en-US}}
Rodman released her debut EP, Help, in 2016.{{Cite web |last=Walker |first=John |date=June 21, 2016 |title=A Highly Subjective List Of The 20 Best Songs of 2016 (So Far) |url=https://www.bkmag.com/2016/06/21/20-best-songs-of-2016-so-far/ |access-date=January 26, 2022 |website=Brooklyn Magazine |archive-date=January 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126033254/https://www.bkmag.com/2016/06/21/20-best-songs-of-2016-so-far/ |url-status=live }} Her first two albums, The Lake and Endless Kindness, were released in 2017{{Cite web |last=Markbreiter |first=Charlie |date=December 6, 2018 |title=NYMPHOWARS: A Podcast That Plunks Caitlyn Jenner in a Sephora Cabaret |url=https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/vbaz9d/nymphowars-podcast |access-date=January 26, 2022 |website=Garage |language=en |archive-date=January 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126012615/https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/vbaz9d/nymphowars-podcast |url-status=dead }} and 2019{{Cite web |last=Mashurov |first=NM |date=2020 |title=Endless Kindness by Macy Rodman (Sweat Equity, 2019) |url=https://www.poetryproject.org/publications/newsletter/261/endless-kindness-by-macy-rodman |access-date=January 26, 2022 |website=The Poetry Project |archive-date=January 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126012616/https://www.poetryproject.org/publications/newsletter/261/endless-kindness-by-macy-rodman |url-status=live }} respectively, on Sweat Equity. She released two remix EPs, called Neovaginal Dilation Expansion Packs, in 2020 for her songs "Berlin" and "Vaseline".{{Cite web |last=Moran |first=Justin |date=September 3, 2020 |title=Macy Rodman Knows You Want to Move to Berlin |url=https://www.papermag.com/macy-rodman-berlin-music-video-2647449148.html?rebelltitem=6#rebelltitem6?rebelltitem=6 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126033254/https://www.papermag.com/macy-rodman-berlin-music-video-2647449148.html?rebelltitem=6#rebelltitem6?rebelltitem=6 |archive-date=January 26, 2022 |access-date=January 26, 2022 |website=Paper |language=en}} Rodman signed to Shamir's Accidental Popstar Records in 2021,{{Cite web|last=Ali|first=John|date=September 13, 2021|title=NYC starlet Macy Rodman finds magic through heartbreak with new album 'Unbelievable Animals'|url=https://money.yahoo.com/nyc-starlet-macy-rodman-finds-185403254.html|access-date=January 26, 2022|website=Yahoo Money|language=en-US|archive-date=January 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126012615/https://money.yahoo.com/nyc-starlet-macy-rodman-finds-185403254.html|url-status=live}} and released her third studio album, Unbelievable Animals, the same year. Rodman wrote the songs for the album during the COVID-19 lockdown. The album consists of twelve songs written in the span of a month deals with heartbreak and pandemic anxiety and combines "radio-rock shine with dirt-punk roots, like the energy in a '90s nightclub", with "a dash of Ray of Light-esque experimental pop and Chromatica-style club bangers."{{Cite web |last=Moran |first=Justin |date=July 1, 2021 |title=Macy Rodman Announces New Album, 'Unbelievable Animals' |url=https://www.papermag.com/macy-rodman-unbelievable-animals-2653606203.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824182822/https://www.papermag.com/macy-rodman-unbelievable-animals-2653606203.html |archive-date=August 24, 2021 |access-date=August 24, 2021 |website=Paper}} In 2022, she produced Ysak's single "Crossroads."{{Cite web |last=Moran |first=Justin |date=January 24, 2022 |title=Ysak and Macy Rodman Talk Shit |url=https://www.papermag.com/ysak-macy-rodman-2656441956.html?rebelltitem=28#rebelltitem28?rebelltitem=28 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217180421/https://www.papermag.com/ysak-macy-rodman-2656441956.html?rebelltitem=28#rebelltitem28?rebelltitem=28 |archive-date=February 17, 2022 |access-date=February 17, 2022 |website=Paper |language=en}} On March 4, 2022, Rodman released an EP of Unbelievable Animals remixes called Uncontrollable Flammables,{{Cite web |last=Connolly |first=Abigail |date=March 5, 2022 |title=Weekly Tour Announcement Roundup: The Weeknd, Kevin Morby, Summer Walker, and More |url=https://news.bandsintown.com/article/2022-03-03-weekly-tour-announcements-the-weeknd-kevin-morby-summer-walker-and-more/ |access-date=March 11, 2022 |website=Bandsintown |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325015656/https://news.bandsintown.com/article/2022-03-03-weekly-tour-announcements-the-weeknd-kevin-morby-summer-walker-and-more/ |url-status=live }} featuring remixes from Ariel Zetina, False Witness, Veronica Electronica, Michete, Yufi, Jim Cannon, Penelopi, So Drove, and M Zavos.{{Cite web |title=Uncontrollable Flammables, by Macy Rodman |url=https://macyrodman.bandcamp.com/album/uncontrollable-flammables |access-date=March 11, 2022 |website=Bandcamp |language=en |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325015657/https://macyrodman.bandcamp.com/album/uncontrollable-flammables |url-status=live }} In 2023, she remixed Softee's song "Isn't Enough,"{{Cite web |last=Brow |first=Jason |date=2023-06-13 |title=Softee Decides The 'Song Of The Summer' Is Here When Picking For 'The Sound Of Pride' Playlist (Exclusive) |url=https://hollywoodlife.com/2023/06/13/softee-pride-month-songs/ |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=Hollywood Life}}{{Cite web |date=2023-05-31 |title=Interview: Softee's Queer Pop Hit 'Isn't Enough' Remix by Macy Rodman |url=https://www.wussymag.com/all/2023/5/31/interview-softees-queer-pop-hit-isnt-enough-remix-by-macy-rodman |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=WUSSY MAG |language=en-US}} and in 2024 she performed at Doll Invasion on Fire Island.{{Cite web |last=Factora |first=James |date=2024-09-05 |title=See Exclusive Portraits From Doll Invasion, the Heavenly Trans Takeover of Fire Island |url=https://www.them.us/story/doll-invasion-photos-fire-island-second-annual-event |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=them |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Byron |first=Grace |date=2024-09-02 |title=The Second Annual 'Doll Invasion' of Fire Island Was a Celestially Fashionable Affair |url=https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/second-annual-doll-invasion-of-fire-island |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}}
Rodman hosts the improvisational comedy podcast Nymphowars with Theda Hammel.{{Cite web |last=Leight |first=Riley |date=December 24, 2019 |title=The Podcast That Best Captured the Chaos of the Internet in 2019 |url=https://www.thecut.com/2019/12/nymphowars-best-captured-the-chaos-of-the-internet-in-2019.html |access-date=January 26, 2022 |website=The Cut |language=en-us |archive-date=January 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126015638/https://www.thecut.com/2019/12/nymphowars-best-captured-the-chaos-of-the-internet-in-2019.html |url-status=live }} In 2023, she appeared in Cole Escola's short film Our Home Out West.{{Cite web |last=Ramírez |first=Juan A. |date=2023-12-25 |title=A Connoisseur of Camp |url=https://www.thecut.com/2023/12/cole-escola-our-home-out-west-mary-todd-lincoln-interview.html |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=The Cut |language=}}
Discography
=Studio albums=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
!Title !Album details |
| scope="row"| The Lake
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| scope="row"| Endless Kindness
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| scope="row"| Unbelievable Animals
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=Remix albums=
=Extended plays=
=Singles=
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|7152724}}
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